Barriers to healthcare access in a non-elderly urban poor American population.
An understanding of perceived barriers to health-care is critical to improving healthcare access for all Americans. To determine perceived barriers to health-care in an urban poor population in Dayton, Ohio, a face-to-face door-to-door survey of individuals identified through targeted, stratified, a...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 445 - 454 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2001
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